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I will donate my horrific head cold to anyone that is wanting to go into a fog for over a week and not think about anything except for "I CAN'T BREATH". Accepting applications.

No more applications! Can't do it - if I got rejected from a head cold that would be the straw that broke the camel's back.

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No more applications! Can't do it - if I got rejected from a head cold that would be the straw that broke the camel's back.

My program has very low standards. No application fee. We boycott the GRE. And I don't feel that any essays would tell me anything about you that I actually need to know. Simply showing interest will guarantee acceptance to the head cold program. Thank you for your interest.

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My program has very low standards. No application fee. We boycott the GRE. And I don't feel that any essays would tell me anything about you that I actually need to know. Simply showing interest will guarantee acceptance to the head cold program. Thank you for your interest.

Then I'm in. I'm feeling desperate, and I'll take any guaranteed acceptance!

Lolopixie Institution; Head Cold PhD; Accepted via GradCafe (NA/NA/NA NA); Feels great to be accepted!

Is that pathetic???

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I am trying to astrally project my consciousness to the end of next week, when I expect to hear from 2-3 of my schools.

Great idea! Though I may bypass the next few weeks and dwell in late February. Hopefully, some program will find my application compelling by then.

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I recieved an "invitation" email today from some fake place called "ie business school." I hope the Attorney General shuts them down, because I am COMPLAINING!

Every once in a while I check my spam folder, just in case, where half of the email subjects start with "Congratulations!" <_<

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I woke up this morning to an email in my inbox from a ucla[dot]edu address and freaked out, only to open it and see it was spam/result of a hack job. Googled the name and it's not someone associated with English, so it's not even like I can tell myself that the person had my email address in their contacts because I was on some kind of "WE WANT YOU" list, ha. #heartattacks

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I woke up this morning to an email in my inbox from a ucla[dot]edu address and freaked out, only to open it and see it was spam/result of a hack job. Googled the name and it's not someone associated with English, so it's not even like I can tell myself that the person had my email address in their contacts because I was on some kind of "WE WANT YOU" list, ha. #heartattacks

I keep getting spam from BC's psychoanalysis program and random MBA programs. They all start with something misleading like "congratulations" or "admissions."

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I keep getting spam from BC's psychoanalysis program and random MBA programs. They all start with something misleading like "congratulations" or "admissions."

Aaaaaand I just got a call from a Los Angeles number that was a "political opinions survey," the universe is playing cruel and unusual tricks today!

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I keep getting spam from BC's psychoanalysis program and random MBA programs. They all start with something misleading like "congratulations" or "admissions."

Not BC - the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis? I still get them all the time and I'm firmly ensconced in a program. They started after the GRE... I blame ETS and their amoral practices.

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Not BC - the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis? I still get them all the time and I'm firmly ensconced in a program. They started after the GRE... I blame ETS and their amoral practices.

Oh! I'm sorry to malign BC then. Boston has several of these kinds of unaffiliated schools that try and sound like they're part of a larger U.

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Not BC - the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis? I still get them all the time and I'm firmly ensconced in a program. They started after the GRE... I blame ETS and their amoral practices.

Yeah, I've walked by this place. It's in the lower level of an apartment complex and the sign looks like its as old as Freud would be. definitely not BU or BC.

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Yeah, I've walked by this place. It's in the lower level of an apartment complex and the sign looks like its as old as Freud would be. definitely not BU or BC.

Well, we know one thing they're good at, and that's spamming during tense grad admissions periods.

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On a related note, what are you all doing to stay positive? Because I'm stumped.

Really, as a second-time applicant, receiving my first rejection (well, an implicit rejection from Duke) is sending me into spirals of panic and dread. I'm inclined to burrow under my covers until April, but that isn't really an option... So how are we all trying to stay upbeat?

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I haven't heard a single thing yet, but none of my schools have reported. Regardless, I had a lot of feelings of low self-worth today. So, I moped for about an hour, then I did laundry and read the most boring book I've ever read in my life.

I guess the short answer is to stay active? I dunno. It's not working that well for me, because I still have those lingering thoughts of, "Oh God, what if I don't get in? I have no other job skills! I'm ruined! Student debt! Goodbye, cruel world!"

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I've been trying to find captivating distractions -- that is, distractions that literally hold me and/or my attention captive and prevent me from checking (or at least obsessively glancing at the tab for) my email. Some things quasi-working for me are: swimming at the gym, Netflix (in full screen), yoga (not that it's doing anything to loosen me up, but my class has a no phones policy), multiple showers a day, movie theaters, walks in areas with low signal, drunken stupors, and the like. I'll let you know if I ever find anything that *actually* works though.

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I haven't heard a single thing yet, but none of my schools have reported. Regardless, I had a lot of feelings of low self-worth today. So, I moped for about an hour, then I did laundry and read the most boring book I've ever read in my life.

I guess the short answer is to stay active? I dunno. It's not working that well for me, because I still have those lingering thoughts of, "Oh God, what if I don't get in? I have no other job skills! I'm ruined! Student debt! Goodbye, cruel world!"

CUNY is up next week. At least the release acceptances and rejections together. Puts you out of your misery.

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